Citizen Participation Program, Phase I
Author | : David G. Hinds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David G. Hinds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James L. Creighton |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2005-03-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0787979635 |
Internationally renowned facilitator and public participation consultant James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program. The book is also filled with practical advice, checklists, worksheets, and illustrative examples.
Author | : Melvin B. Mogulof |
Publisher | : Urban Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Duncan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York (N.Y.). Department of City Planning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Community development, Urban |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell J. Dalton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-10-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191053325 |
The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of social status as an influence on political activity is increasing. The democratic principle of the equality of voice is eroding. The politically rich are getting richer-and the politically needy have less voice. This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends. New forms of activity place greater demands on participants, raising the importance of social status skills and resources. Civil society activity further widens the participation gap. New norms of citizenship shift how people participate. And generational change and new online forms of activism accentuate this process. Effective and representative government requires a participatory citizenry and equal voice, and participation trends are undermining these outcomes. The Participation Gap both documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and suggests ways that we can better achieve their theoretical ideal of a participatory citizenry and equal voice.
Author | : Anna A. Amirkhanyan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351379267 |
Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen participation in government remains a central tenet of democracy, public service delivery structures are considerably more complex today than they were fifty years ago. Today, governments contract with private organizations to deliver a wide array of services. Yet, we know very little about how citizens influence government decisions and policies in the "hollow state." Based on nearly 100 interviews with public and private managers, our findings about the state of citizen participation in contract governance are somewhat disheartening. Public and private organizations engaged citizens in a number of ways. However, most of their efforts failed to shift the power structure in communities and did not give citizens a chance to fundamentally shape local priorities and programs. Instead, elected officials and professional staff largely maintained control over significant policy and administrative decisions. Widespread, but narrow in their forms and impact, the participation practices we uncovered did not live up to the ideals of democracy and self-governance. Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is suitable for those who study public administration, as well as in other closely related fields such as nonprofit management and organizational behavior.
Author | : United States. Office of Community Planning and Development. Office of Evaluation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Community development |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. Fagence |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483294544 |
The author's aim has been to draw together the threads of political and social science and of sub-specialisms within those broad areas of study and to interpret them in the context of urban and regional planning. Consideration is given to various interpretations of decision making in a democracy, to 'representation' and the public interest, to the opportunities for citizen participation in the planning process, to the range of potential participants, their motivation and competence, to the means which may be employed to secure different levels of citizen involvement; and to the impediments to meaningful participation. Therefore this book will contribute to the closing of the existing gap between theory and practice by drawing together a diversity of themes from political science, philosophy and psychology, community theory and regional science, rendering them comprehensible in the context of planning
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-11-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0309134412 |
Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. Although some form of public participation is often required by law, agencies usually have broad discretion about the extent of that involvement. Approaches vary widely, from holding public information-gathering meetings to forming advisory groups to actively including citizens in making and implementing decisions. Proponents of public participation argue that those who must live with the outcome of an environmental decision should have some influence on it. Critics maintain that public participation slows decision making and can lower its quality by including people unfamiliar with the science involved. This book concludes that, when done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment. Well-managed public involvement also increases the legitimacy of decisions in the eyes of those affected by them, which makes it more likely that the decisions will be implemented effectively. This book recommends that agencies recognize public participation as valuable to their objectives, not just as a formality required by the law. It details principles and approaches agencies can use to successfully involve the public.